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Chapter 251 Getting Beaten
Huo Die forced a smile: "So that's how it is. Rumors are really disgusting."
Shen Yao wholeheartedly agreed: "Exactly!"
Huo Die subtly probed, like boiling a frog in lukewarm water, "Did the bet go through in the end?"
Shen Yao perked up at this, unaware of the seriousness of the situation, and said smugly, "I bet, and I won!"
"Oh..." Huo Die pushed Feng Yu into the courtyard, turned around and closed the gate: "What did you bet on?"
Shen Yao raised her chin: "50% of the management rights for Drunken Beauty."
She thought she had done something incredibly good and wanted to show off a bit, so she looked at Huo Die with a haughty expression, waiting for him to continue asking questions.
Huo Die asked casually, "What kind of business does Zui Hongyan do?"
Shen Yao: "Let's play pool."
Ha, playing billiards? What the hell is playing billiards? Where in this world is there billiards?
"Let's go back to our rooms first." Huo Die waved for them to go ahead, then followed behind to send a message to Tu Lin: "Little Lin, what does Zui Hongyan do?"
After delivering the message, he continued to probe further as they walked: "What did you bet with?"
"Gambling with my and my father's five hundred years of freedom..." Shen Yao felt guilty and hesitated to speak. After thinking for a moment, she said, "It was just a rain of perfect stones."
Having acknowledged her as his daughter for twenty years, Huo Die could tell she wasn't telling the truth the moment she glanced at him with a guilty look in her eyes.
He silently made another note for his daughter in his mind.
Just as they reached the second wisteria tree, Tu Lin sent a message: "Why is Old Man Huo asking about this place? Zui Hongyan is on South Street in the inner city, and it's the largest brothel in Longyuan City."
Huo Die chuckled, clenching his jaw tightly. He casually broke off a wisteria branch, stripped off all the flowers, and called out to Shen Yao, "Girl, what kind of business do you think Zui Hongyan is?"
Shen Yao turned around excitedly. Was she finally going to ask the next question? She should ask her how billiards came to exist in this world, and then she could explain what she had done to gain the admiration of her father and husband.
Her eyes lit up: "Playing pool!"
"Dad, why are you picking up a twig?"
Huo Die smiled, then raised his hand and whipped the branch at his daughter.
Shen Yao was shocked and quickly hid behind Feng Yu: "Father, why did you hit me?!"
Huo Die's branches were quick, ruthless, and accurate. No matter how Ren Fengyu tried to protect her, the branches could still accurately strike Shen Yao's limbs and shoulders.
Feng Yu had no choice but to hug Shen Yao and throw herself to the ground, shielding her completely beneath her to prevent Huo Die from hitting her.
Shen Yao was very indignant, shrinking under Feng Yu and still shouting, "Father, why did you hit me? For no reason, what right do you have to hit me?"
"Yanzhou, stop talking," Feng Yu hurriedly coaxed, knowing that his father-in-law was truly angry this time.
"Yunhe, get out of my way!" Huo Die roared, "Why should I hit you? If I don't, you'll think you're something special! You're a liar, you even dare to go to brothels! What else wouldn't you dare to do!"
Shen Yao was slightly surprised: "How did Father know it was a brothel?"
Huo Die used his divine power to transform into a golden rope, bound Feng Yu, and tossed her aside. He then raised his hand and cast the Six Directions Array, trapping Feng Yu inside.
Suddenly, Shen Yao found herself alone; her protectors were gone! She scrambled to her feet and ran, crying, "Father, you've misunderstood! Drunken Beauty was indeed in a brothel before… Ah! Stop hitting me! Ah…"
Huo Diefei kicked her to the ground and fiercely scolded, "I think your soul has been tainted by the filth of Earth. Rather than waiting for you to fall into evil in the future, I'd rather beat you to death right now!"
Veins popped up in his hand. He swung his hand and the branch was about to hit his daughter again. Shen Yao turned over and formed a wind shield to block it. Huo Die slapped the branch on her hand: "If you dare to use spiritual power, I will beat you with divine power!"
Shen Yao moved back and explained, "Father, you've really misunderstood. I bought the brothel and converted it into a billiards room; it was a good deed..."
"Ouch!" Another branch hit her leg. Shen Yao got up and used her spiritual energy to fly towards the courtyard wall.
Feng Yu was extremely anxious. Her father had already cultivated to the level of an Immortal Ancestor in the pharmacy. He possessed divine power and was the strongest among those of the same level. Feng Yu could not break free from his restraints for the time being.
Huo Die dropped the branch, and his divine power transformed into a long whip that wrapped around Shen Yao's leg. He pulled her back, and Shen Yao fell straight into the courtyard.
A snow-white fox tail swept over, saving Shen Yao from falling to the ground. Tu Xiaoxiao arrived just in time, grabbed her with both hands, and pulled her into her arms, the eight fox tails completely shielding her.
Huo Die was furious: "Young Master Tu, I'm disciplining my daughter, don't interfere in my family affairs."
With his handsome, youthful face, he addressed himself as "old man" repeatedly, and it didn't seem out of place at all.
The traitorous Tu Xiaoxiao really wanted to retort: "Your family affairs might not be unrelated to mine."
But Huo Die was, after all, his future father-in-law, so he didn't dare to be too presumptuous. He could only explain properly: "Immortal Huo, you have indeed misunderstood. Sister Shen did buy the brothel and convert it into a billiards room. She did a good thing."
Huo Die's anger subsided slightly: "Zui Hongyan is the largest brothel in Longyuan City. It's not something you can just buy with a single 'perfect rain'. Tell me, what did you use as your stake?"
With Tu Xiaoxiao protecting her and having a backer, Shen Yao became bolder and retorted, "Does it matter what the bet is made of? Anyway, I won the bet."
Huo Die whipped his long whip through the air, creating a sonic boom that startled Shen Yao, who shrank back into the fox tail.
Even a slight divine wrath, in its avatar, is terrifying. Huo Die roared with full force, "Will you talk or not!"
Feng Yu, struggling to break free of the golden rope, cried out anxiously, "Father, don't scare her!"
Tu Xiaoxiao gently patted Shen Yao's back to comfort her: "Don't be afraid."
Shen Yao's trembling voice came from the fox tail: "I...I'll bet I'll be Hua Yi's...maybe a maid for three hundred years..."
She then used the excuse that she couldn't stand up as an excuse to shout, "But I won!"
Huo Die's face turned ashen with anger, and the veins on his neck bulged out.
Feng Yu charged at the boundary array with increasing recklessness, knowing that Yanzhou was doomed today and a severe beating was inevitable.
The male fox, with a determined expression that he was determined to protect Huo Die, confronted him and successfully shared Huo Die's anger.
Huo Die, holding his whip, warned, "Get out of the way, or I'll beat you too."
Shen Yao's sense of chivalry kicked in again: "Dad, you're being unreasonable. Why are you taking your anger out on him?"
Tu Xiaoxiao's heart softened; even Little Muddy knew how to protect him. She immediately hardened her stance: "I'd rather die than give in."
Huo Die didn't say another word. His long whip lashed out at the fox's tail with lightning speed. Tu Xiaoxiao had no way to dodge. Amidst the falling wisteria petals, a patch of white fox fur rose up.
Shen Yao was stunned. Her father had actually gone this far!
She couldn't let Tu Xiaoxiao take the beating for her, so she hurriedly pulled at the fox tail: "Tu Xiaoxiao, move aside, if Dad wants to beat someone, he can beat me instead."
Tu Xiaoxiao refused to give in, her fox tail wrapped tightly around her, and she endured several lashes from Huo.
The whip struck him, causing only pain without breaking the skin. He knew that Huo Die had held back and was showing mercy, so he simply didn't dodge and let Huo Die vent his anger.
Huo Die lashed out a few times before stopping: "I'll let it go today. Come out here, and we'll have a good talk. I won't hit you anymore."
Shen Yao felt really sorry for Tu Xiaoxiao's fox tail. She could see a lot of fox fur flying through the gaps between the overlapping tails.
She asked timidly, "Is what Dad said true? No more fighting?"
Huo Die put away the whip: "When has your father ever lied to you?"